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by DougJ|  March 28, 20143:29 pm| 144 Comments

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The new Pharrell song isn’t as catchy as “Blurred Lines” or “Beautiful”, but I like the genre of songs that are purely simple and fun, no lamenting a world that ain’t so pretty, no Swiftian shots at exes, no indie wanking about someone’s obscure object of desire.

What are your favorite songs in this genre? I’ll go with “Walking on Sunshine”, “Sing A Song”, “Jackie Wilson Said”, “Ignition”, “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” and the Shonen Knife cover of “Top of the Word” (obscure but so upbeat!).

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  1. 1.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:30 pm

    Jesus, what are you talking about? Katrina and the fucking Waves?

  2. 2.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    Oh, like Joe Jackson.

  3. 3.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    @raven:

    Come on, everyone loves that song.

  4. 4.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Ladykillers – Church Scene

    Better version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZc4cl5kh4

    The Venice Four with Rose Stone and the Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir)

  5. 5.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    @DougJ: Just foolin around,

  6. 6.

    Roger That

    March 28, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    Hepcat – No Worries
    Circle Jerks – Wonderful
    Dead Milkmen – Life is Shit. or Punk Rock Girl.

  7. 7.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 28, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    My thoughts on the new Cosmos.
    Question: Has it made the wingnut heads explode?

  8. 8.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Steppin Out

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    March 28, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    I’d add Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry, Be Happy and Mungo Jerry In the Summertime.

  10. 10.

    Quaker in a Basement

    March 28, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    Everything Paul McCartney ever wrote.

  11. 11.

    Tommy

    March 28, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    What is this genre? I actually like the song. I can dance to it. Well walk dance.

  12. 12.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    @Tommy: I tease my 80’s music loving wife by calling it “doodle oodle music”!

  13. 13.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    @Tommy:

    I actually like all the songs I mentioned, not in an ironic way or anything. I like listening to them.

  14. 14.

    The Other Chuck

    March 28, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    Rainbow Connection by Kermit T. Frog

    But is it wrong of me to want to hear Tom Waits cover it?

  15. 15.

    SatanicPanic

    March 28, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    Everything is Awesome
    Everything is Cool When You’re Part of a Team

  16. 16.

    Lyrebird

    March 28, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    New-to-me peppy item from a German a capella band (Wise Guys)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4TpvIgGKM

  17. 17.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    Bananarama Cool Summer

  18. 18.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    Safety Dance Man Without Hats

  19. 19.

    cleek

    March 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    Here Comes The Sun, motherfucker

  20. 20.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    @The Other Chuck:

    Willie Nelson does a great cover.

  21. 21.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    dexys midnight runners come on eileen

  22. 22.

    susie

    March 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehu3wy4WkHs

  23. 23.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    @raven:

    Well, because they’re Irish, they couldn’t just make it a simple song. The lyrics are about how they’ll get old and tired like poor old Johnny Ray and those people ’round here so that’s why they need to carpe diem while they’re still far too young and clever.

  24. 24.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    @DougJ: Good beat, sort of easy to dance to.

  25. 25.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 28, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    @DougJ: How did you become such an encyclopaedia of music?

  26. 26.

    Fellatio Alger

    March 28, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    Love the song. Hate the one-eyed yellow thing.

  27. 27.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: There’s only one way, you live it.

  28. 28.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I just listened to the radio a lot and had a “High Fidelity” style roommate. I’m certainly not an expert like cleek or Jewish Steel or the guy from Can’t Explain.

  29. 29.

    C.S.

    March 28, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    Dire Straits. Walk of Life.

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    March 28, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    I’m sure someone will tell me they have some secret deep meaning, but you can’t go wrong with They Might Be Giants:

    “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”

    “Birdhouse in Your Soul”

  31. 31.

    BGinCHI

    March 28, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    I’m gonna go with “Holiday in Cambodia.”

    No one else could make a refrain out of Pol Pot.

    That shit is catchy.

  32. 32.

    Froley

    March 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    Sly and the Family Stone, “Dance to the Music” and “I Want to Take You Higher”
    Basement Jaxx, “Red Alert”
    Deee-Lite, “Groove Is in the Heart”

  33. 33.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    I’ll have to post Good Graeff, “Vietnam” and “Hold Me Fast”.

  34. 34.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    @Froley:

    Strong choices.

  35. 35.

    Sad_Dem

    March 28, 2014 at 3:56 pm

    Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon (and True Love, while we’re at it)

  36. 36.

    Bob

    March 28, 2014 at 3:56 pm

    Squeeze, “Cool for Cats”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXGNN3LRdl4

    Just about anything by Wreckless Eric

  37. 37.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 3:56 pm

    @Froley: Hot Fun in the Summertime!

  38. 38.

    kwAwk

    March 28, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    Life of Riley – Lightning Seeds

    Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats

    Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper

    Without Me – Eminem

  39. 39.

    randomworker

    March 28, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    Melanie – Brand New Key

  40. 40.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 28, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    A Ukrainian a cappella group called Pikkardiyska Tercia singing Starenkyj Tramvay (The Old Tram.)

  41. 41.

    kwAwk

    March 28, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    Oh and also B52’s — Rock Lobster

  42. 42.

    Belafon

    March 28, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: You description reminds me of xkcd’s mention of Mythbusters.

  43. 43.

    Belafon

    March 28, 2014 at 4:08 pm

    @kwAwk: One of my Company Commanders in Navy bootcamp played the B52s a lot. It’s the closest I come to PTSD.

  44. 44.

    the Conster

    March 28, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    Life is a Highway and anything by the Young Rascals – Groovin’ , People Got to Be Free or Beautiful Morning for starters.

  45. 45.

    raven

    March 28, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Guardian:

    12m ago
    Officials in the Austrian-lead search have said that the change in search area is customary for search missions of this magnitude. “I don’t count the original work a waste of time,” John Young, an official at the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, told The Wall Street Journal.

    Investigators aren’t saying for sure that this will be the final search area. Officials from both Australia and Malaysia said the data may be analyzed again, prompting them to look elsewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.

    Must be searching the undewater mountains!

  46. 46.

    ted

    March 28, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    I was walking down our main street yesterday and a car came past blasting “Happy” from inside. Right next to me three teen girls started clapping along to the off beat. Yep, it’s a great little pop song.

  47. 47.

    kwAwk

    March 28, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    @Belafon:

    Could have been worse. You were hoping for Manilow maybe?

  48. 48.

    johio

    March 28, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Jimmy Soul, If you want to be happy

  49. 49.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    Happy isn’t exactly “new,” but is definitely catchy.

    Also, too, http://24hoursofhappy.com/ (probably not viewable on a phone)

  50. 50.

    Belafon

    March 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    @kwAwk: On the day he determined that some of the people needed “special instruction” he would have us line the path to a small room and dance to Love Shack as they walked into the room.

  51. 51.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    There’s a warrant on my head. (Peppy beat, somewhat disturbing lyrics – common for this group)

  52. 52.

    Jewish Steel

    March 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    but I like the genre of songs that are purely simple and fun

    You say you’re not a Beatles guy, but this sums up a lot of their work.

  53. 53.

    Booger

    March 28, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Click on over to 24hoursofhappy.com if you weren’t planning to do anything for the next full day.

  54. 54.

    Keith G

    March 28, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Иew Radicals’ song, You Get What You Give is a fantastic walking song, as is Under Pressure with Bowie/Mercury – I always start my walks off with those. Note: Both clock in at ~120 pbm, a good walking pace.

  55. 55.

    mjj

    March 28, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Fishbone – Everyday Sunshine

  56. 56.

    Jewish Steel

    March 28, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    @mjj: Good one! I’ll take Party At Ground Zero.

    @raven: Just follow the sound of the Alpen Didgeridoo when you’re lost.

  57. 57.

    Gravenstone

    March 28, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    @John Cole: Sweet fucking Jesus H Christ do I loathe Don’t worry…. Played into the fucking ground, then resurrected and the ambulatory corpse beaten to a fine froth.

  58. 58.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    @kwAwk: Good stuff.

  59. 59.

    cleek

    March 28, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    The Cure – Just Like Heaven

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 28, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    The song in the movie Happy Feet, with those cute penguins, that was pretty catchy?

  61. 61.

    Gravenstone

    March 28, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    @C.S.: Back in the day, I was driving my grandmother somewhere and popped in my tape of “Brothers in Arms”. Up comes Walk of Life, and she says it sounds like a damned funeral dirge.

    And people wonder where I get my curmudgeonly nature from …

  62. 62.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    And in the makes the Village People look like Pat Boone category.

  63. 63.

    penpen

    March 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    nominate these for this genre of “life affirming pop”

    Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
    Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover

  64. 64.

    penpen

    March 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    nominate these for this genre of “life affirming pop”

    Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
    Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover

  65. 65.

    Amir Khalid

    March 28, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy), Simon and Garfunkel.

  66. 66.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    Shipping out.

  67. 67.

    rollSound

    March 28, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Janet Jackson — When I Think Of You

  68. 68.

    Hobbes

    March 28, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    Chris Knox’s Not Given Lightly.

  69. 69.

    West of the Rockies

    March 28, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    Okay, so this is musically-related, and this is an open thread, so here goes…

    I HATE how ignorant audiences are nowadays at live performances. My wife and I went to see a live performance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony… After those first four iconic notes… into the exquisite silence that followed… came the sound of a teenage boy tearing into a bag of fucking Gummi Worms!

    I felt very, very murdery!

  70. 70.

    RSA

    March 28, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    Stuff that comes to mind:

    Celebration, Kool & the Gang
    Mr. Blue Sky, ELO
    Gimme Some Lovin, The Spencer Davis Group

    And I don’t know if there’s too much wanking in it, but Mr. Jones and Me, Counting Crows.

  71. 71.

    Quicksand

    March 28, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    I think the pinnacle of this genre is Hey Ya! by Outkast. It’s perfect.

    And I’m very much an aficionado of aggressively misanthropic and damaged post-rock type stuff, so this is really out-of-character for me.

  72. 72.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    March 28, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Blind Melon – No Rain

  73. 73.

    Mike E

    March 28, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Tyson’s attempt to bridge scientific curiosity with spirituality (a small ‘s’ here, i suppose) may be futile, especially when it comes to fundamentalist furvor behind creationism and blocking scientific pursuit in general, but I like his passion so far. Sagan had it too, but he also had that ‘billions’ thing going for him in a pop culture phenomenon thingy as well. Also.

    The Halley episode was the 1st clunker in the bunch so far IMO.

    eta I Wish, by Steveland Morris
    etaa Boogie On Reggae Woman

  74. 74.

    kwAwk

    March 28, 2014 at 4:34 pm

    @Belafon:

    lol I can see where that could leave a mark on your psyche…

  75. 75.

    geg6

    March 28, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    I love, love, love “Happy.” It makes my whole day better when I hear it.

  76. 76.

    Marc in MD

    March 28, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    “Stupidly Happy” by XTC. (Not the only candidate from that amazing and under-adored band.)

  77. 77.

    Amir Khalid

    March 28, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    Another song called Happy that also puts a smile on my face.

  78. 78.

    Mike E

    March 28, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    @Marc in MD: I wore out their Oranges and Lemons album.

  79. 79.

    RSA

    March 28, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    Also…

    Stand, REM
    Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
    Rosalita, Bruce Springsteen

    These just make me smile and turn up the stereo.

  80. 80.

    libarbarian

    March 28, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Kids LOVE this song. My 22 month-old dances everytime he hears it.

    On a more serious note, Pharrell better hope he doesn’t get arrested. I mean, WHY is he so happy? Seems like evidence of illegal drug use to me.

  81. 81.

    Moomoo's Clean-Up Detail (Once Posted as Atlanta Rhythm Method Man)

    March 28, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    “The Groove Line” by Heatwave is my go-to peppy, upbeat song, with “Boogie Nights” a close second. And I’ve taken a liking to Andrew Gold’s “Never Let Her Slip Away.”

    And Andy Gibb’s “An Everlasting Love.”

    *ducks*

    /returns to lurk status

  82. 82.

    geg6

    March 28, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Another one that gets me shaking my booty every single time:

    http://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

    EW&F are dance crack.

  83. 83.

    cleek

    March 28, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    Rolling Stones – Happy

    Keith’s finest moment

  84. 84.

    geg6

    March 28, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    @Quicksand:

    Ooooo, yes! Hey Ya is a great booty shaking fun song.

    And here you go:

    http://youtu.be/PWgvGjAhvIw

  85. 85.

    Jewish Steel

    March 28, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    A greater challenge might be to think of a minor key song that produces the same effect. Off the top of my head, Hell by the Squirrel Nut Zippers comes close.

  86. 86.

    justawriter

    March 28, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    Lots of smiles here from some of the titles including Celebration … It came out when I was in college and while on choir tour we had a conga line going up and down the length of the bus to that tune.

    A couple of others I would add –
    If I Had a Million Dollars – Barenaked Ladies
    I Believe in Music – Mac Davis
    Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah – Allan Sherman

  87. 87.

    Moo-Moo's Clean-Up Detail

    March 28, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    “The Groove Line” by Heatwave, with “Boogie Nights” a close second.

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 28, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    “Wonderful World” – Joey Ramone version

  89. 89.

    Dick Woodcock

    March 28, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    The Shonen Knife song is actually titled “Top of the World”, it’s a cover of a Carpenter’s song.

    Yeah, they do sing it as Top of the Word, though. Darn accents.

  90. 90.

    lamh36

    March 28, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    I’ma hip hop party chick and Kid N Play’s “Rollin With Kid N Play” always gets me moving and smiling.

    Prince’s Baby I’m A Star is also a great song that really has no meaning other than to make u get up and get moving

  91. 91.

    lamh36

    March 28, 2014 at 4:51 pm

    Oh The O jays “I Love Music” and “Love Train” are def plain ole just happt songs.

  92. 92.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 28, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    @Mike E: I actually liked it the best.

  93. 93.

    Svensker

    March 28, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    Walk Like an Egyptian.

    Atomic Dog

    Brick House

    Gap Band – Early In the Morning

    Yes, I liked the 80s. Why do you ask?

  94. 94.

    Alex

    March 28, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    Orbital – Halycon On and On

    Of course, it helps that it was used in every single movie with an electronica soundtrack in the 90s.

  95. 95.

    spudgun

    March 28, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    @Marc in MD: I prefer “The Mayor of Simpleton” as my happy-go-lucky XTC song. That song always puts a smile on my face!

  96. 96.

    Amir Khalid

    March 28, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong

  97. 97.

    ? Martin

    March 28, 2014 at 5:02 pm

    How do you pronounce ‘Swfitian’? I want to end it like Venetian, but with a drunken slurring at the beginning.

    96 comments and nobody mentioned it. You guys are getting senile.

  98. 98.

    C.S.

    March 28, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    @Gravenstone: A funeral dirge? If so, then I wanna go to that funeral!

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    March 28, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    Santana and Michelle Branch, “The Game of Love.”

    Clapping is always good in a feel-good song. Plus bonus tie-in to the guitarist thread from last night. Carlos!

  100. 100.

    Comrade Mary

    March 28, 2014 at 5:09 pm

    I HATE Walking on Sunshine. HATE. While Happy is not in the top pantheon, it’s a lovely song and I don’t HATE it. And do not get me started on Rise Up from The Parachute Club.

    Best happy songs that most of you might know:

    Stevie – Don’t You Worry ’bout A Thing
    Sly and the Family Stone – Everybody is a Star
    Talking Heads – Stay Up Late AND Naive Melody

    A little more obscure:

    Spearhead – Say Hey
    54-40 — Love You All
    And trumping EVERYTHING: this version of Don’t You Evah by Spoon — because Keepon

  101. 101.

    Steeplejack

    March 28, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    King Harvest, “Dancing in the Moonlight.”

    Pure fluff. But delightful. Submitted with the risk of waking Little Boots before midnight. Where’s Omnes?

  102. 102.

    Comrade Mary

    March 28, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    @raven: Ah, Grauniad, don’t ever chnage.

  103. 103.

    Amir Khalid

    March 28, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    @? Martin:
    I know my being a grammar Nazi can piss people off, so I try not to be a spelling Nazi too

  104. 104.

    Kathleen

    March 28, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    @Sad_Dem: It’s a Beautiful Morning. Gettin’ Jiggy With It. And yes, Celebration and Groove Line.

  105. 105.

    Comrade Mary

    March 28, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    @Steeplejack: Oh, that is a lovely, lovely choice. From about the same time Redbone – Come and Get Your Love.

  106. 106.

    notoriousJRT

    March 28, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    @cleek:
    Yup
    Also Feelin’ Groovy. Simon & G
    Groovin’. Rascals

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic always picks me up from a funk.

  107. 107.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 28, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    Did someone say Everlasting Love?

    Also, too: The Emotions.

  108. 108.

    Svensker

    March 28, 2014 at 5:28 pm

    And how’d I forget?

    Anything by the Wild Tchoupitoulas

    And, of course,Iko Iko — here’s the “original” version by the Dixie Cups

  109. 109.

    p.a.

    March 28, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    Surfin’ Bird
    T.Heads: Don’t Worry About the Government
    J.Edwards: Shanty
    Brewer and Shipley: One Toke Over the Line
    Pure Prairie League: Amie
    Feat: Will in’

    All these get me singin’. Which believe me is something you do not want to experience.

  110. 110.

    Mike E

    March 28, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Not to say that it’s an unworthy story; I thought the commercial breaks totally bogged it down. NdeGT is going for some heady stuff here, and some subjects may not translate to Fox teevee so readily.

  111. 111.

    chopper

    March 28, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    “we’re going to be friends” by white stripes.

  112. 112.

    Comrade Mary

    March 28, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    @p.a.: OK, if we’re doing early Heads:

    The Book I Read
    Pulled Up <== This one guarantees happy, injury-inducing moshing about the house every time

  113. 113.

    schrodinger's cat

    March 28, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    @Mike E: I love Classical Mechanics and I think it is beautiful and mathematically elegant and one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Without it there is no physics, it forms the basis of everything that came after that.

  114. 114.

    shelly

    March 28, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Simon & Garfunkels ’59th Street Bridge Song”

    Feelin’ Groovy!

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 28, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Soul Finger, The Bar-Kays

  116. 116.

    DougJ

    March 28, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    @? Martin:

    Sorry, I misspelled it.

  117. 117.

    Just One More Canuck

    March 28, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    @C.S.: also, “Twisting by the pool”

  118. 118.

    randomworker

    March 28, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Saturday In the Park – Chicago

  119. 119.

    burnspbesq

    March 28, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    Sly & the Family Stone, “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
    Marshall Crenshaw, “Rockin’ Around in NYC”
    Fountains of Wayne, “A Dip in the Ocean”

  120. 120.

    chopper

    March 28, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    ALL’s “Frog“.

  121. 121.

    Just One More Canuck

    March 28, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    And some more Sly

    Thank you falettin me be mice elf agin

  122. 122.

    burnspbesq

    March 28, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    A couple more:

    Was (Not Was), “Walk the Dinosaur”
    The Plimsouls, “Zero Hour”
    Los Lobos “I Got Loaded”
    Richard & Linda Thompson, “Wall of Death”
    Crowded House, “Something So Strong”

  123. 123.

    Amir Khalid

    March 28, 2014 at 5:58 pm

    Sherry Darling. Yeah, Bruce is griping about his girlfriend’s ma, but it’s really all in good fun.

  124. 124.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 28, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Love that one.

  125. 125.

    Seanly

    March 28, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    My wife & I love Pharrell’s “Happy”. Given the rough & long chemo treatment (and low odds for 5-year survivability) for ALL that my wife is going through, we need all the cheering & brightness that we can get.

    One of my other favorites is The Sunday’s song “Summertime”.

  126. 126.

    FridayNext

    March 28, 2014 at 6:02 pm

    Life is Grand by Camper Van Beethoven
    Take The Skinheads Bowling is pretty good, too.

    Captain Sensible’s Wot

    Just about anything by Slade

  127. 127.

    Andrey

    March 28, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    @West of the Rockies: It’s not a “nowadays” thing. Beethoven wrote his symphonies in a time where his audience was quite likely to be eating, chatting, laughing, and applauding during the performance.

  128. 128.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 28, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    @raven: Austria, Australia…it’s all the same thing, you know.

  129. 129.

    p.a.

    March 28, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    @Comrade Mary: I always interpret Pulled Up as the biography of GW Bush, although it was written well before he slithered onto the national stage.

  130. 130.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 28, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    ON topic:

    I’m so Excited!

  131. 131.

    Hobbes

    March 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Just remembered Electric Six’s Escape From Ohio tends to elevate my mood.

  132. 132.

    Shana

    March 28, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    @Hobbes: Holy crap! Yes! Thanks for mentioning that one.

  133. 133.

    Shana

    March 28, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    @burnspbesq: Almost everything by Marshall Crenshaw.

  134. 134.

    ruemara

    March 28, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Love those. To death.

    How odd. I actually likes this Pharrell song. Normally, I avoid most popular music like the plague of locusts that it is, but this one is good, danceable and not making feel like I’m watching audio amateur porn. Nice.

  135. 135.

    mai naem

    March 29, 2014 at 12:58 am

    I’ll add a few – Sugar Sugar, Black Eyed Peas- I Gotta Feeling, Jimmy Cliff – I Can See Clearly Now, Bruno Mars – Just the Way You Are, Queen – You’re My Best Friend, Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman, Stevie Wonder -Jammin’, Paul Simon -Kodachrome, Abba – Mama Mia, Olivia Newton &John Travolta -You’re the One That I Want, the GoGos- Our Lips Are Sealed, Jesus Jones -Right Here Right Now.

  136. 136.

    moderateindy

    March 29, 2014 at 1:03 am

    “Shambala”: 3 dog night’s version
    “Victoria” The Kinks
    “Hey Little Goldfish” not written by an actual band, but for a fairly awful, but totally star studded movie called “Hello Down There”. Richard Dreyfuss’ first ever part as the band’s bassist. Some of the other stars that you would recognize, Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Roddy McDowell, Ken Berry, Charlotte Ray, Merv Griffin, and a few other character actors from the 60-70’s
    http://youtu.be/zfYeylQV6VE

  137. 137.

    Sonora

    March 29, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Crunchy Granola Suite. Neil Diamond

    Good Lawd!

  138. 138.

    Sonora

    March 29, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Crunchy Granola Suite. Neil Diamond

    Good Lawd!

  139. 139.

    notorious JRT

    March 29, 2014 at 3:10 am

    Forgot Van Helen’s Jump(!)

  140. 140.

    The Golux

    March 29, 2014 at 9:07 am

    So many great ideas here. I’ll throw in The Band, “Time To Kill”:

    http://youtu.be/J8EtKFACo4U

  141. 141.

    The Golux

    March 29, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Cool, I’ve never been in moderation before.

  142. 142.

    Andy G.

    March 29, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    Just about anything by the 5th Dimension, with the obvious exception of “One Less Bell To Answer.”

  143. 143.

    Kris Collins

    March 29, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    Stevie Wonder- You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Isn’t She Lovely

    Billy Joel- Rosalinda’s Eyes

    Earth, Wind, and Fire- September

  144. 144.

    john fremont

    March 30, 2014 at 3:14 am

    I Was Made To Love Her- Stevie Wonder
    Sweet Sweet Baby (I’m Falling)- Lone Justice

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